MEANING
A carved representation used or regarded as an object of worship.
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- forbidden graven image
- worship a graven image
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The sermon warned against a graven image kept in the old hall.
She examined the forbidden graven image without accepting the villagers' account of it.
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- graven image
Usage notes
Primary category: gothic. Forms: Singular graven image; plural graven images. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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